If you want to know, read the L.A. Times Booster Shots post which recounts Rosie Mestel's recent experience volunteering for a cancer epidemiology study. A first hand account of what it's like to be interviewed by a health services researcher, this blogger goes from being a bit reticent about giving... (read the rest)
posted April 17, 2009
News reports say that researchers from the John Innes Center in the UK have grown a potentially cancer-preventing tomato. These tomatoes genetically altered to grow with the dark purple pigment anthocyanin are hoped to either prevent or reduce the effects of a number of chronic diseases including cancer. When the... (read the rest)
posted October 29, 2008
Seen Robert Shapiro hawking LegalZoom.com? Well, according to the WSJ Health Blog on Thursday, soon the same kind of templates used to give you a quickie will or corporation could give you a cancer clinical trial. Yes, clinical trials may soon be churned out template-style by some legal eagles, industry... (read the rest)
posted September 22, 2008
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